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Portrait Collection (#80)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Come Hither Smile

Come Hither Smile
A flirtatious young woman with bare shoulders, circa 1900. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Breadfruit

Breadfruit
The breadfruit (Artocarpus Incisa), circa 1800. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Sections Of The Breadfruit

Sections Of The Breadfruit
Vertical and horizontal sections of the breadfruit (Artocarpus Incisa), circa 1800. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Sikh Officers

Sikh Officers
Sikh officers of Hodsons Horse, pictured at the time of the Indian Mutiny, 1857. (Photo by Felice Beato/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Difficult Choice

Difficult Choice
A young woman divides her attentions between her amorous suitor and a good book, circa 1799. Engraving by W Finden after Stothard, RA. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Frozen Market

Frozen Market
Customers line up at a fishmongers stall in the Frozen Market, St Petersburg, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Iranian Gorge

Iranian Gorge
A mountain gorge in Iran, where part of a railway connecting the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea is under construction, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Railway Route

Railway Route
A mountain gorge in Iran, where part of a railway connecting the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea is under construction, circa 1955. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Broad Street

Broad Street
Numbers 27 and 28, Broad Street, Golden Square, London, circa 1910. English poet and painter William Blake was born at number 28, and later opened a print shop at number 27

Background imagePortrait Collection: St Patricks Cathedral

St Patricks Cathedral
St Patricks Roman Catholic Cathedral in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, circa 1950. It was founded by the saint in 445, upon his return from Rome

Background imagePortrait Collection: Portrait Of William Butler Yeats

Portrait Of William Butler Yeats
Portrait of Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), circa 1920s. (Photo by Martin Vos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: A Century Of Fashion

A Century Of Fashion
An illustration, published in November 1800, comparing mens fashions from 1700 (left) and 1800. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Saint Nicholas

Saint Nicholas
A mosaic depicting Saint Nicholas, 4th Century Bishop of Myra, in the Basilica San Marco, Venice, circa 1930. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Pompeii

Pompeii
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 26th April 1872, seen from the ruins of ancient Pompeii. An engraving from a sketch by Sydney Hall, published in the Graphic. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Monadnock Building

Monadnock Building
A view from the 14th storey of the Old Colony Building in Chicago, showing the Monadnock Building on the left, 2nd July 1895

Background imagePortrait Collection: Newgate Prison

Newgate Prison
The entrance to Newgate Prison in London, circa 1900. Built in 1188 and rebuilt in 1782, it was finally demolished in 1902, and the Old Bailey built upon the site

Background imagePortrait Collection: Westminster Hall

Westminster Hall in the Palace of Westminster, London, circa 1930. The timbered hammerbeam roof was constructed in the 14th century and adorned with carved wooden angels

Background imagePortrait Collection: St Johns Gate

St Johns Gate, the entrance to the medieval priory of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem or Knights Hospitaller, in St Johns Lane, Clerkenwell, circa 1930. This Tudor gate house was built in 1504

Background imagePortrait Collection: Turkish Woman

Turkish Woman
A Woman of Constantinople by French artist Jean-Leon Gerome, circa 1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Diwan-i-Am

Diwan-i-Am
The Diwan-i-Am, or Hall of Public Audiences, in the Lal Quila or Red Fort in Delhi, India, circa 1900. The fort was built by the Mughal Emperor Shahjahan between 1638 and 1648

Background imagePortrait Collection: Guy Fawkes Cellar

Guy Fawkes Cellar
circa 1900: The cellar from which Roman Catholic conspirators attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot of 5th November 1605. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: New Alphabet

New Alphabet
Two Turks learn the Roman alphabet from a sign outside the Town Hall, 1928. The government, under Kemal Ataturk, had decreed that the Arabic alphabet be replaced by the Latin one as Turkeys official

Background imagePortrait Collection: Battle Of Omdurman

Battle Of Omdurman
The 21st Lancers, a British light cavalry regiment, clear the way to Omdurman in the Sudan, through strong resistance from the Khalifas forces, 2nd September 1898

Background imagePortrait Collection: Hotel Dieu

Hotel Dieu
The Hotel Dieu or Hospices de Beaune, a medieval hospital for the care of the poor, circa 1650. A medieval hospital for the care of the poor

Background imagePortrait Collection: Lusitania Deck

Lusitania Deck
A view on the deck of the Cunard liner Lusitania, circa 1915. The ship was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on 7th May 1915. Original Publication: The Graphic, pub. 15th May 1915

Background imagePortrait Collection: Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
American poet Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), circa 1880. Engraved by C.M. Jenkin after a drawing by J. Hennessey (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Flamboyant Whitman

Flamboyant Whitman
American poet Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), July 1854. This portrait appeared in several editions of his collection Leaves of Grass

Background imagePortrait Collection: English Archer

English Archer
An English archer with a longbow, circa 1500. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Victorian Lady

Victorian Lady
A woman outside an arched doorway, circa 1865. (Photo by Roger Fenton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Telegraph Clock

Telegraph Clock
Workmen dismantle the clock which hangs outside the Daily Telegraph building at 135 to 141, Fleet Street, London, 1930. The building is due to be remodelled

Background imagePortrait Collection: Servants At Erdigg

Servants At Erdigg
The domestic staff at Erdigg Hall, the home of the Yorke family in Wrexham, North Wales, 1852. They are head gardener James Phillips, coachman Edward Humphries, laundry maid Elizabeth Alford

Background imagePortrait Collection: Victorian Maid

Victorian Maid
A Victorian maidservant standing with her hands on her hips, 1895. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Victorian Maid

Victorian Maid
A Victorian maidservant carrying a tea tray and the morning post, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Victorian Maid

Victorian Maid
A Victorian maidservant carrying a tea tray, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Flooding In England

Flooding In England
Devastation in Summerset-shire and Norfolke during the Bristol Channel flood of 1607. Around 2000 people are thought to have died in the inundation, which may have been the result of a tsunami

Background imagePortrait Collection: Cane Cutters

Cane Cutters
Migrant workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Trinidad, circa 1897. After the emancipation of slaves in British colonies, large numbers of workers were imported, especially from Asia

Background imagePortrait Collection: Jamaican Cane Cutters

Jamaican Cane Cutters
Workers cutting sugar cane on a plantation in Jamaica, 1897. Illustration by J. Finnemore (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Brother and Sister

Brother and Sister
A formal portrait of a brother and sister, circa 1890. (Photo by Otto Herschan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: English Picture Gallery

English Picture Gallery
The English Picture Gallery at the International Exhibition, Dublin, 1862. (Photo by William England/London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Victorian Dog Lover

Victorian Dog Lover
A man sits at a garden table with four pet dogs, 1870. (Photo by Otto Herschan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Zeppelin Damage

Zeppelin Damage
A wrecked house in Shoreditch, London, after a Zeppelin raid on the area, July 1915. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Celestial Bed

Celestial Bed
A depiction of James Grahams Celestial Bed, with the inscription The Celestial Bed with the Rosy Goddess of Health reposing thereon, 1780

Background imagePortrait Collection: Market Cross

Market Cross
The Market Cross in Grantham market place, Lincolnshire circa 1920. (Photo by Herbert Felton/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Bank Rotunda

Bank Rotunda
The payment of dividends in the Rotunda of the Bank of England, circa 1820. An engraving by T. H. Shepherd and J. Shury. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Bell X-1

Bell X-1
The Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier, 1947. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam
The Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, with Lake Mead visible behind it, circa 1950. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Fujiyama Pilgrim

Fujiyama Pilgrim
A pilgrim on his way to Mount Fuji (Fujiyama) on the Japanese island of Honshu, 1880. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background imagePortrait Collection: Soap Warehouse

Soap Warehouse
The soap warehouse in Fore Street, Lambeth, circa 1880. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)



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